Mathematics
and Biology: The Interface - Challenges and OpportunitiesADD. KEYWORDS: Statistics and Stochastic Processes, Dynamical
Systems Theory, Nonlinear Partial Differential and Functional Equations, Classical
Analysis, Topology and Geometry, The Impact of Mathematics on Cellular and
Molecular Biology, The Impact of Mathematics on Organismal Biology, The Impact
of Mathematics on Ecology and Evolutionary BiologySOURCE: Workshop on mathematics and biology at Cornell
University

Quantitative Population
EcologyADD. KEYWORDS: Course materials, Population systems and
their components, Estimation of population density and size, sSatial distribution
of organisms, Fractal dimension of population distribution, Statistical analysis
of population dynamics, Reproducing populations: exponential and logistic
growth, Life-tables, k-values, Model of Leslie, Intrinsic rate of population
increase, Stable age distribution, Stability, Oscillations and chaos in population
dynamics, Attractors and their types, Equilibrium: stable or unstable?, Quantitative
measures of stability, Limit cycles and chaos, Predators, Parasites, and Pathogens,
Competition and cooperation, Dispersal and spatial dynamics, and Population
outbreaks.SOURCE: Alexei Sharov from Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State UniversityTECHNOLOGY: Excel

Visual
Models of Morphogenesis: A Guided TourADD. KEYWORDS: Modeling of biological structures and simulation
of their developmentSOURCE: Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Mark Hammel and Radomir
Mech from the University of CalgaryTECHNOLOGY: Quicktime movies